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Technology, Entertainment and Design

2024-02-11

It’s hard to find someone who hasn’t ever seen or heard of these three letters side by side: TED. It’s much easier to find someone who, though they regularly watch or listen to TED presentations, has never wondered what TED stands for.

New English Words

2024-02-03

New words pop up every day and what seemed to be relevant yesterday may disappear for good in our ever-changing world. And also, there are words and phrases that have already existed but a new meaning got attached to them in a new context.

Human translators vs CAT

2024-01-28

It was about 4 years ago when we posted a blog entry about the big question: ❓ Are human translators still better than computer translators❓

The value of revision

2024-01-20

Revision is an indispensable part of learning a language. It helps you remember and reactivate previously covered vocabulary, grammar and structures, thus increasing your confidence, your accuracy and your fluency.

Word Of The Year 2023 – part 2

2024-01-14

Last week we posted part 1 of our traditional mini-series, Word Of The Year. After 2019’s“climate emergency”, 2020’s “pandemic”, 2021’s “vax”, and 2022’s “Goblin mode”, at the end of 2023, the Word Of The Year was announced by Dictionary dot com: “hallucinate”.

Word Of The Year 2023 – part 1

2024-01-07

Word Of The Year for 2023, announced by Dictionary dot com, is not a new word. It’s an old word with a new meaning. Each year, trending words and phrases are tracked and analysed. The winner usually sums up in one or two words the most significant event, discovery, crisis or trend of the given calendar year.

Look for our unique hashtag on facebook

április 11, 2020

Now, that everyone spends even more time online we updated our earlier posts on our facebook page and placed a unique hashtag, #fastenglishweeklytips in all our posts.

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The mysterious -A-

április 7, 2020

How can a letter be exciting? 🙂 Not easily 🙂

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Get a global look

április 4, 2020

Politico dot com published ”34 big thinkers’ predictions for what’s to come” that is how the present pandemic will change the world.

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5 words for people who get on your nerves

március 31, 2020

Merriam-webster.com lists these words (and more) in their „Words at Play” series. Let’s see if you have ever heard them and if you know what they mean.

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9 Tips on what to do now

március 28, 2020

FAST ENGLISH WEEKLY TIPS ⏩ ⏩ MAKE THE MOST OF IT Interestingly, it’s Tip Berlin’s website where we found the most practical collection of tips, WRITTEN IN ENGLISH , on what you can do at home during the quarantine…

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